The Zoochat Photographic Guide To The Muscicapoidea (Part I) - Old World Flycatchers and Chats

Saxicola


Jerdon's Bushchat (Saxicola jerdoni)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout northeast India and northern Bangladesh into northern and north-central Indochina.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Grey Bushchat (Saxicola ferreus)

Therange of this species extends throughout the Himalayas from northern Pakistan in the west to northeast India and northern Myanmar in the east, and from here into northern Indochina, south-central China and south-east China; wintering populations extend south into the southern Himalayan foothills of northern India, and patchily into central and southern Indochina.

Two subspecies recognised:

S. f. ferreus - photo by @LaughingDove



S. f. haringtoni


White-bellied Bushchat (Saxicola gutturalis)

Endemic to Timor in the Lesser Sundas, and surrounding offshore islands.

Two subspecies recognised:

S. g. gutturalis
S. g. luctuosus

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout Europe, and into Western and Central Asia, from the British Isles and Iberian Peninsula in the west to the Black Sea and Caucasus in the east, and from here south into northern Iran and further east into western and south-central Siberia; the wintering range of this species extends across the Sahel of Africa from Senegal and Gambia in the west to Eritrea and Ethiopia in the east, and south from here through eastern Africa to Malawi and eastern Zambia.

Monotypic.

Photo by @LaughingDove




White-browed Bushchat (Saxicola macrorhynchus)

The range of this species is restricted to the Thar Desert of northwestern India; populations were formerly much more widespread, extending as far west as central Afghanistan.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


White-throated Bushchat (Saxicola insignis)

The summer breeding range of this species is restricted to western and central Mongolia, and the immediately-adjacent portions of south-central Russia; the wintering range of this species extends from north-central India in the west, through Nepal and Bhutan to northeast India in the east.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Pied Bushchat (Saxicola caprata)

The range of this species extends from Central Asia into southern and southeast Asia, from southern Kazakhstan in the north to south-central Iran and Pakistan in the south, and east from here throughout the Indian Subcontinent, southern China and Indochina; the range of the species also extends patchily southeast from here into the Philippines, Lesser Sundas and New Guinea.

Sixteen subspecies recognised:

S. c. rossorum
S. c. bicolor
S. c. burmanicus
S. c. nilgiriensis
S. c. atratus
S. c. caprata
S. c. randi
S. c. anderseni
S. c. fruticola
S. c. francki
S. c. pyrrhonotus
S. c. albonotatus
S. c. cognatus
S. c. belensis
S. c. aethiops
S. c. wahgiensis

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


White-tailed Stonechat (Saxicola leucurus)

The range of this species extends throughout the Indus Valley of Pakistan, and from here into the foothills of the Himalayas; the range of the species then extends east throughout the Himalayas into northeast India and northern Myanmar.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Fuerteventura Stonechat (Saxicola dacotiae)

Endemic to the eastern Canary Islands.

A single extant subspecies - the nominate - is recognised.

Photo by @Zoovolunteer




Common Stonechat (Saxicola torquatus)

The resident breeding range of this species comprises several disjunct populations; western and southern Europe from the British Isles, Iberian Peninsula and North Africa in the west, throughout the Balkans and Asia Minor to the Middle East; and patchily throughout sub-Saharan Africa with the largest population extending from southern DRC and Congo in the west to Tanzania and the Albertine Rift in the east, and south to the Cape, but absent from the most arid areas of Angola and Namibia. The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout central and eastern Europe in the west, through the Caucasus, Central Asia and Siberia, to the Russian Far East in the east, and south into the Himalayas, northern Indochina and south-central China. The wintering range of this species extends throughout northern and northeast Africa, into the Arabian Peninsula and Indian Subcontinent, to southeast China in the east, and south from here into Indochina.

Twenty-four subspecies are currently recognised, in an number of clades which may merit species status:

S. t. hibernans - photo by @LaughingDove



S. t. rubicola - photo by @vogelcommando



S. t. hemprichii
S. t. variegatus - photo by @vogelcommando



S. t. maurus
S. t. indicus - photo by @Chlidonias



S. t. przewalskii
S. t. stejnegeri
S. t. moptanus
S. t. nebularum
S. t. jebelmarrae
S. t. salax
S. t. felix
S. t. axillaris
S. t. stonei - photo by @Maguari



S. t. promiscuus - photo by @lintworm



S. t. torquatus
S. t. oreobates
S. t. clanceyi
S. t. voeltzkowi
S. t. tsaratananae
S. t. ankaratrae
S. t. albofasciatus
S. t. sibilla


Reunion Stonechat (Saxicola tectes)

Endemic to Reunion Island.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Campicoloides


Buff-streaked Chat (Campicoloides bifasciatus)

The range of this species extends throughout northeast and eastern South Africa, and into Swaziland and Lesotho.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Emarginata


Karoo Chat (Emarginata schlegelii)

The range of this species extends throughout southeast and southern Africa, from southwest Angola, through Namibia and into southwest and south-central South Africa.

Four subspecies recognised:

E. s. benguellensis
E. s. schlegelii
E. s. namaquensis
E. s. pollux

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Sickle-winged Chat (Emarginata sinuata)

The range of this species extends throughout southern Africa, from southwest Namibia into South Africa - barring the northeast - and Lesotho.

Three subspecies recognised:

E. s. ensifera
E. s. hypernephela
E. s. sinuata

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Tractrac Chat (Emarginata tractrac)

The range of this species extends throughout southwest Africa, from west-central Angola in the north, south through Namibia to western and southwest South Africa.

Five subspecies recognised:

E. t. hoeschi
E. t. albicans
E. t. barlowi
E. t. nebulosa
E. t. tractrac

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Pinarochroa

Moorland Chat (Pinarochroa sordida)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout northeast Africa, from southernmost Eritrea and adjacent Ethiopia in the north to north-central Tanzania in the south.

Four subspecies recognised:

P. s. sordida - photo by @Maguari



P. s. ernesti
P. s. olimotiensis
P. s. hypospodia
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Thamnolaea

Mocking Cliff-chat (Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout eastern Africa, from Eritrea and Ethiopia in the north to southeast South Africa in the south, with disjunct populations dispersed in a highly-fragmented distribution throughout western and central Africa.

Nine subspecies recognised:

T. c. bambarae
T. c. cavernicola
T. c. coronata
T. c. kordofanensis
T. c. albiscapulata - photo by @Maguari



T. c. subrufipennis
T. c. odica
T. c. cinnamomeiventris
T. c. autochthones
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Myrmecocichla


Sooty Chat (Myrmecocichla nigra)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa north of southern Angola in the west and northern Mozambique in the east.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Hix




Northern Anteater-chat (Myrmecocichla aethiops)

The range of this species extends throughout the Sahel of sub-Saharan Africa, from southern Mauritania and northern Senegal in the west to southwest and south-central Sudan in the east; a disjunct population extends from west-central Kenya to northern Tanzania.

Three subspecies recognised:

M. a. aethiops
M. a. sudanensis
M. a. cryptoleuca - photo by @LaughingDove




Congo Moor-chat (Myrmecocichla tholloni)

The range of this species extends in a patchy and disjunct distribution throughout Central Africa, from southeast Gabon to central Angola.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Southern Anteater-chat (Myrmecocichla formicivora)

The range of this species extends throughout southern Africa, from northeast Namibia in the west to westernmost Zimbabwe in the east, and south throughout South Africa.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Mountain Wheatear (Myrmecocichla monticola)

The range of this species extends throughout southern Africa, from west-central Angola south to the Cape, and east throughout South Africa into Lesotho and western Swaziland.

Four subspecies recognised:

M. m. nigricauda
M. m. albipileata
M. m. atmorii
M. m. monticola

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Rüppell's Chat (Myrmecocichla melaena)

The range of this species extends from southern Eritrea into northern and central Ethiopia.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari




Arnot's Chat (Myrmecocichla arnotti)

The range of this species extends throughout south-central Africa, from west-central Angola in the west to northern Mozambique in the east, south into northeast Botswana, Zimbabwe and northern South Africa, and north through southeast DRC and southwest Tanzania into the Albertine Rift.

Three subspecies recognised:

M. a. harterti
M. a. leucolaema
M. a. arnotti - photo by @Maguari


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Oenanthe


Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from northeast Canada, Greenland and Iceland into the British Isles and Iberian Peninsula, and from here throughout Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and northern Asia to the Russian Far East and northeast China, and across the Bering Strait to Alaska and adjacent northwest Canada. The wintering range of this species extends throughout the Sahel of sub-Saharan Africa from southern Mauritania and northern Senegal in the west to southeast South Sudan, Eritrea and northwest Ethiopia in the east, and south from here throughout eastern Africa to northern Zimbabwe and adjacent northwest Mozambique.

Three subspecies recognised:

O. o. leucorhoa
O. o. oenanthe - photo by @TeaLovingDave



O. o. libanotica - photo by @Hix




Black-throated Wheatear (Oenanthe seebohmi)

The summer breeding range of this species extends patchily throughout northern and central Morocco and northern Algeria; the wintering range of this species extends through West Africa from southwest Mauritania and Senegal to western Mali.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Capped Wheatear (Oenanthe pileata)

The range of this species extends throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, from northern Angola and adjacent southwest DRC in the west to south-central Kenya and northern Tanzania in the east, and south to the Cape.

Three subspecies recognised:

O. p. livingstonii - photo by @Hix



O. p. neseri
O. p. pileata - photo by @LaughingDove




Rusty-breasted Wheatear (Oenanthe frenata)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari




Buff-breasted Wheatear (Oenanthe bottae)

The range of this species extends throughout the highlands of southwest Saudi Arabia and western Yemen.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Heuglin's Wheatear (Oenanthe heuglinii)

The range of this species extends across much of the Sahel of sub-Saharan Africa, from southern Mauritania, Mali and northeast Guinea in the west, to western Ethiopia, northwest Kenya and northeast Uganda in the east.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Isabelline Wheatear (Oenanthe isabellina)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from the northeast Balkans into Asia Minor, the Middle East and Caucasus, and east through Central Asia to eastern Mongolia and northeast China; the wintering range of this species extends throughout the Sahel into the Horn of Africa, and from here into the Arabian Peninsula and southern Asia as far east as southeast Pakistan and northwest India.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Hooded Wheatear (Oenanthe monacha)

The range of this species extends in a highly patchy and fragmented distribution throughout the Arabian Peninsula and southwest Asia, from the Sinai Peninsula and adjacent regions of northeast Egypt to southwest Pakistan and adjacent southeast Iran.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Desert Wheatear (Oenanthe deserti)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout northern Africa from northeast Morocco in the west to northeast Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula in the east, and from here patchily into the Middle East and Central Asia, as far east as southern Mongolia and north-central China; populations in north-central Africa are resident. The wintering range of this species extends from the Sahara and northern Sahel of Africa, through the Horn of Africa and Arabian Peninsula, into southwest Asia as far east as northwest India.

Three subspecies recognised:

O. d. homochroa
O. d. deserti
O. d. oreophila - photo by @Chlidonias




Black-eared Wheatear (Oenanthe hispanica)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa in the west, throughout southern and southeast Europe into Asia Minor, the Middle East and Caucasus, and into southwest Kazakhstan and north-central Iran in the east; the wintering range of this species extends throughout the Sahel from Mauritania and Senegal in the west to Eritrea and northern Ethiopia in the east.

Two subspecies recognised:

O. h. hispanica
O. h. melanoleuca - photo by @TeaLovingDave




Cyprus Wheatear (Oenanthe cypriaca)

The summer breeding range of this species is restricted to Cyprus; the wintering range of this species extends throughout central and southeast Sudan into northwest Ethiopia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Pied Wheatear (Oenanthe pleschanka)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from the Black Sea coastline of southeast Europe into the Caucasus and Central Asia, as far east as southeast Siberia, Mongolia and north-central China; the wintering range of this species extends from the southwest Arabian Peninsula into eastern Africa, from southern South Sudan, Eritrea and northern Ethiopia in the north to north-central Tanzania in the south.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


White-fronted Black-chat (Oenanthe albifrons)

The range of this species extends throughout the Sahel, from southern Senegal and Gambia in the west to southern South Sudan and northern Uganda in the east, with patchy disjunct populations extending into Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Five subspecies recognised:

O. a. frontalis
O. a. limbata
O. a. clericalis
O. a. albifrons
O. a. pachyrhyncha

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Somali Wheatear (Oenanthe phillipsi)

The range of this species is restricted to northern and central Somalia, and adjacent southeast Ethiopia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.

 

Buff-rumped Wheatear (Oenanthe moesta)

The range of this species extends throughout northern Africa, from Western Sahara to northeast Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula, and patchily into the Middle East; wintering populations exist in the central Arabian Peninsula.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Blackstart (Oenanthe melanura)

The range of this species extends patchily and in a highly-fragmented distribution throughout the Sahel and southern Sahara, into the Red Sea coastline of northeast Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and throughout the western and central Arabian Peninsula.

Six subspecies recognised:

O. m. ultima
O. m. airensis
O. m. melanura
O. m. neumanni
O. m. lypura
O. m. aussae

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Familiar Chat (Oenanthe familiaris)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa from southeast Senegal in the west to northwest Ethiopia in the east, and south to the Cape; the species is largely absent from the rainforest and arid habitats of the Congo Basin and Kalahari Desert, and entirely absent from the Horn of Africa.

Seven subspecies recognised:

O. f. falkensteini
O. f. omoensis
O. f. angolensis
O. f. galtoni
O. f. hellmayri
O. f. actuosa
O. f. familiaris

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Brown-tailed Chat (Oenanthe scotocerca)

The range of this species extends patchily and in a highly-fragmented distribution of disjunct populations throughout central and eastern Africa, from eastern Chad and western Sudan to Eritrea, Ethiopia and northern Somalia.

Five subspecies recognised:

O. s. furensis
O. s. scotocerca
O. s. turkana
O. s. spectatrix
O. s. validior

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Sombre Rockchat (Oenanthe dubia)

Endemic to the upper Awash Valley of northeast Ethiopia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Brown Rockchat (Oenanthe fusca)

The range of this species extends throughout northwest and north-central India, and patchily into northeast Pakistan.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Variable Wheatear (Oenanthe picata)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout Central Asia, patchily so in the west, and south through Tien Shan to southwest Pakistan and southeast Iran; the wintering range of this species extends from the northeast Arabian Peninsula into southwest Asia as far east as northwest India.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Black Wheatear (Oenanthe leucura)

The range of this species extends from southeast France and the Iberian Peninsula, south into Morocco and from here throughout northwest Africa as far south as northwest Mauritania and as far east as northwest Libya.

Two subspecies recognised:

O. l. leucura
O. l. riggenbachi - photo by @ralph




White-crowned Wheatear (Oenanthe leucopyga)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout northern Africa, from the western and central Sahara into the northern Sahel and Red Sea coastline, and into the Middle East and east-central Arabian Peninsula.

Two subspecies recognised:

O. l. leucopyga
O. l. ernesti

Photo by @vogelcommando




Hume's Wheatear (Oenanthe albonigra)

The range of this species extends from eastern Iraq and Iran in the west to northeast Pakistan in the east, and south into the northwest Arabian Peninsula.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Finsch's Wheatear (Oenanthe finschii)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from Asia Minor and the Middle East, through the southern Caucasus and Caspian Sea coastline into Central Asia, with a disjunct population present in northwest Pakistan and adjacent Afghanistan; populations in the southern portions of this range are resident. The wintering range of this species extends throughout the Middle East and northern Arabian Peninsula into southwest Asia as far east as southwest Pakistan.

Two subspecies recognised:

O. f. finschii
O. f. barnesi

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Mourning Wheatear (Oenanthe lugens)

The range of this species extends in a highly-fragmented distribution of disjunct populations throughout northern Africa from southeast Morocco to northeast Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula, south through eastern Africa to north-central Tanzania, and east throughout the Middle East and Arabian Peninsula as far as southern Iran; populations in Iran represent summer breeders which winter in the west-central Arabian Peninsula.

Nine subspecies recognised:

O. l. halophila
O. l. lugens
O. l. persica
O. l. warriae
O. l. lugentoides
O. l. boscaweni
O. l. lugubris
O. l. vauriei
O. l. schalowi - photo by @LaughingDove




Red-tailed Wheatear (Oenanthe chrysopygia)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from northeast Turkey, through Armenia and Azerbaijan into southern Central Asia as far east as northwest Pakistan; the wintering range of this species extends throughout the Arabian Peninsula and southwest Asia as far east as northwest India and adjacent southern Pakistan.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Kurdish Wheatear (Oenanthe xanthoprymna)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from southeast Turkey to southwest Iran; the wintering range of this species is poorly known but believed to extend throughout the Nile Valley and Red Sea coastline of Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Pinarornis


Boulder Chat (Pinarornis plumosus)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout southeast Africa, from eastern Zambia and western Malawi in the north to southern Zimbabwe and adjacent west-central Mozambique in the south.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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And that is Old World Flycatchers done and dusted overall I reckon we've got a pretty good standard of representation in the gallery, although I am certain we could do better - particularly where some of the Wheatear and Redstart species are concerned!

Next, I shall start to tackle the other groups within the Muscicapoidea - but first I shall be doing a spot of birding in the Iberian Peninsula which might just allow me to fill one or two more gaps in the gallery, if only at subspecies level!

 

Although not the greatest photograph, I have now added an image of this species into the gallery and hence this thread

 

I have now added these images to the thread thank-you very much, both of you!